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DandelionPowderman
The Stones at their best, re-inventing themselves again.
How is it even possible to make a rocker this mellow and soft-sounding (listen to the instrumental bridge), yet so swinging and raw?
The guitar sounds make a perfect match, with Ronnie's clean and soft sound, and Keith's ranchy Mesa Boogie-sound.
Great playing by everyone, but the drums and the bass deserve an extra mention, imo.
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DandelionPowderman
The Stones at their best, re-inventing themselves again.
How is it even possible to make a rocker this mellow and soft-sounding (listen to the instrumental bridge), yet so swinging and raw?
The guitar sounds make a perfect match, with Ronnie's clean and soft sound, and Keith's ranchy Mesa Boogie-sound.
Great playing by everyone, but the drums and the bass deserve an extra mention, imo.
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Come On
She absolutely is! Being a fast-rocker could heat her a bit...
(this was 1980 and I hadn't forgotten the ace-rocker 'Don't lie to me' 4 years earlier)
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Silver Dagger
The Stones reinvent their classic sound and bring it right up to date for the 1980s with a little help from a digital delay effect.
Jagger's lyrics echo the classic wooing technique employed by European poets down the ages of attempting to melt the moral frigidity of their lady loves - the best example being English poet Andrew Marvel's celebrated To His Coy Mistress.
He's one of the verses of this epic poem.
But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.
Jagger says as much in three lines:
When you're old, when you're old, nobody will know
That you was a beauty, a sweet, sweet beauty
A sweet, sweet beauty, but stone, stone cold
This is one song that we don't hear enough live and that works really well in both a stadium and arena.
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Come On
She absolutely is! Being a fast-rocker could heat her a bit...
(this was 1980 and I hadn't forgotten the ace-rocker 'Don't lie to me' 4 years earlier)
Recorded in 1964, and played live in Texas in 1972
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DandelionPowderman
<That you was a beauty>
Never mind grammar
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DandelionPowderman
The Stones at their best, re-inventing themselves again.
How is it even possible to make a rocker this mellow and soft-sounding (listen to the instrumental bridge), yet so swinging and raw?
The guitar sounds make a perfect match, with Ronnie's clean and soft sound, and Keith's ranchy Mesa Boogie-sound.
Great playing by everyone, but the drums and the bass deserve an extra mention, imo.
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latebloomer
...the best example being English poet Andrew Marvel's celebrated To His Coy Mistress.
Robert Herrick might have said it beter in, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time:
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he’s to setting.
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.
No grammar problems for Marvel or Herrick, but it doesn't matter. I think Mick may have bested them both. She may be so cold, but the song is hot, hot, hot.
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Come On
She absolutely is! Being a fast-rocker could heat her a bit...
(this was 1980 and I hadn't forgotten the ace-rocker 'Don't lie to me' 4 years earlier)
Recorded in 1964, and played live in Texas in 1972
Yup, but I heard it the first time was it -75,or-76 that 'Metamorphosis were released...and that was a song fully in class with them to two starters for Exile...Great rock'n'roll...
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latebloomer
...the best example being English poet Andrew Marvel's celebrated To His Coy Mistress.
Robert Herrick might have said it beter in, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time:
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he’s to setting.
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.
No grammar problems for Marvel or Herrick, but it doesn't matter. I think Mick may have bested them both. She may be so cold, but the song is hot, hot, hot.
I bow to your knowledge of 16th century American poets latebloomer.